Open Government Data and Beer Analytics
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Open Data Science Conference | East
Jasmine Dumas | @jasdumas | jasdumas.github.io
Friday, May 5th, 2017
ttbbeer and shinyLPThe “clearinghouse” for open U.S. government data is located at data.gov. It also contains tools & resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, and design data visualizations.
read.csv() or read.table()I was inspired to become better at finding datasets and web scraping from the road-blocks of finding analysis-ready datasets for projects about beer!
Here is a tutorial I wrote to get meta data on brewery ratings in Connecticut from Beer Advocate using Import.io and processed the data with R.
ttbbeerttbbeer v1.0.0 package## Month Year Malt_and_malt_products Corn_and._corn_products
## 1 January 2015 316756669 60186876
## 2 February 2015 294630835 49718568
## 3 March 2015 320802302 53925263
## Rice_and_rice_products Barley_and_barley_products
## 1 52438465 8492680
## 2 48975137 9355462
## 3 48710754 22213428
## Wheat_and_wheat_products Sugar_and_syrups Hops_dry Hops_extracts
## 1 1392183 72069615 1916516 298514
## 2 2145359 74431855 1775144 298894
## 3 3761816 82679762 3750830 321462
## Other
## 1 11163548
## 2 12017223
## 3 13892190
ttbbeer v1.1.0 packagervest 😄stringr: "101/01/1951"